0. Introductory The well-known Archaic Latin “Duenos Inscription”,1 conventionally dated to the 6th or early 5th c. B.C.E.,2 requires no detailed introduction; nor is there any question of surveying the immense bibliography devoted to the many enigmas — archeological, cultural, epigraphical, linguistic — surrounding this celebrated and frustrating text and the unique object on which it is inscr...

We discuss the analytical expressions that describe the displacement field resulting from the inscription of a Bragg grating in a Ge-doped optical fiber. The equations stem from a phenomenological approach and allow calculation of the induced stresses. Our model provides an efficient tool to analyze the effects of radiation-induced density variations on the properties of fiber Bragg gratings.

Using Perseverance (Mars 2020) and Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) measurements, we obtain planetary waves with a period of 1.5–30 sols in the 1.5 m temperature, winds 2020), surface pressure, relative humidity. Planetary emerge propagate latitudinally across all variables. Short-period peak at periods ?2, 3, 4.5 sols, confirming previous detections waves, wave amplitudes agree 2020 MSL for The s...

I. Zapata,1 J. Łuczka,2 F. Sols,1 and P. Hänggi3 1Departamento de Fı́sica Teórica de la Materia Condensada C-V and Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales “Nicolás Cabrera,” Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain 2Department of Theoretical Physics, Silesian University, 40-007 Katowice, Poland 3Department of Physics, University of Augsburg, Memminger Strasse 6, D-86135 Augsburg, Germany (...

1. School of Life Sciences, Sambalpur University, Sambalpur, Orissa, India, e-mail: [email protected]; 2. Laboratoire d’Ecologie des Sols Tropicaux, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Bondy, France; 3. Parry Agro-Industries Ltd., Iyerpady, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India; 4. State Pollution Control Board, Bhubaneswar, Orissa India; 5. Departamento de Biología de Suelos, Institu...

The colloid silver sols with defined average particle size were prepared by means of chemical reduction of silver compound [Ag(SO3)2] 3– by several organic redox systems used as development agents in photography. The average size of the particles varied from 700 to 150 nm in dependence on sulphite concentration in reaction system and reduction compound type.

In this work, the effects of strontium addition on the structure and optical properties of nanostructured bismuth silicate (Bi4Si3O12) thin films prepared via sol-gel were studied. At first, different sols containing the optimum ratio of precursors were synthesized, and then, the prepared sols were coated on the substrate via dip coating. The dip coated samples were dried at 100oC and, in order...

The application of photonics to astronomy offers major advantages in the area of highly-multiplexed spectroscopy, especially when applied to extremely large telescopes. These include the suppression of the near-infrared night-sky spectrum [J. Bland-Hawthorn et al, Opt. Express 12, 5902 (2004), S. G. Leon-Saval et al, Opt. Lett. 30, 2545 (2005)] and the miniaturisation of spectrographs so that t...